And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The rich folks here in Florida build their castles on the sands of beaches and barrier islands, and when storms come and wash the excrescences away, us little people get to fund the “rebuilding” and that endless scam called “beach renourishment,” to “restore” for their delectation the changeable coastline that they don’t even have a legal claim to.

Tim J Keegan

Islands in Dubai’s famous Avarice Archipelago, that I wonder what they’ve got there:

1. “Dubai” island. That’s where they put the reception office, right? (Or did they put themselves in “Mecca”?)

2. “Israel” island. (Is there one?)

3. “New Orleans” island.

Strangely, “Siberian” islands are abundant (are these addresses really such a draw?), but “Mongolia” seems to be entirely underwater. I do however see a few that could be “Lhasa” or “Mt. Everest”–great shout-out to “Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld” and Roland Emerich’s “2012”!

Dubai is a strange city. It’s like a three layered world, with the rich at the top, the locals in the middle, and the foreign workers at the bottom. This would have been a beautiful marvel of creation, but like the other grandiose creations in Dubai it has little soulful purpose.

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